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The former president recalled that a year ago he made himself available to transitional justice to tell what happened with the extrajudicial executions that occurred when he was Minister of Defense for former President Álvaro Uribe.
This Friday, former President Juan Manuel Santos referred to the recent report of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, which revealed that 78% of the victims of extrajudicial executions committed by the Army took place between 2002 and 2008, during the presidency of Álvaro Uribe. Velez.
(False positives in the JEP: 78% of the victims reported to the Uribe government)
At that time, Santos was serving as Defense Minister. As head of the portfolio, his knowledge of the operation of the forces was key. Under this context and the data released by the transitional justice, the former president who led the signing of the Peace Agreement with the extinct FARC guerrilla, commented on his Twitter account that thanks to this historic pact, “the truth about the conflict”.
In his trill, he recalled that since last year he made himself available to the JEP “to tell them, among other things, how we investigated, uncovered and put an end to this horror of false positives.” His words have not been the only ones that have come to light after that report. From the opposite shore, former President Álvaro Uribe replied with a statement to the magistracy. He pointed out that the investigation of case 03 was biased, known as Deaths illegitimately presented as casualties in combat by State agents or misnamed “false positives.”
(“I privileged demobilization and capture over casualties”: Uribe in the face of JEP revelations)
“Just started the government, in 2003, when the Democratic Security began to give tranquility to the Colombians, non-governmental organizations, contrary to my ideas, accused the Armed Forces (FFAA) of murdering peasants instead of killing criminals. I publicly took up the issue and it was ordered that the body of someone killed in combat remain in the place, not be moved by the Armed Forces and wait for the arrival of the representative of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the Prosecutor’s Office, ”Uribe said in your reply. In addition, he insisted that as head of state he privileged “demobilization and arrests over casualties.”
The information collected on the false positives was known because the JEP decided to make this progress of the investigation public. According to the document, between 2002 and 2008 at least 6,402 victims were executed. Antioquia, the Caribbean Region, Norte de Santander, Huila, Casanare and Meta are the six critical territories that this justice studies in the first phase of the investigation. The phenomenon of deaths unlawfully presented as combat casualties dates from the 1980s and is studied until the Peace Agreement.
